About Fred Linhoss

Fred is a former Percona employee. Fred has a long history in software development and has held positions in both programming and technical management. He holds a degree in Computer Science from Virginia Tech.

Percona Server release 5.5.10-20.1 is now available for download. This is aÂ release candidateÂ for theÂ Percona Server 5.5 series. In addition toÂ MySQL 5.5.10 now being the base version, here are the changes that have been madeÂ since Percona Server beta release 5.5.8-20.0:

Percona Server version 5.1.55-12.6 is now available for download. It is now the current stable release version. Changes Fixed compiler warnings in both the core server and in XtraDB. (Alxey Kopytov, Yasufumi Kinoshita) Bugs Fixed Bug #602047 – The ROWS_READ columns of TABLE_STATISTICS and INDEX_STATISTICS were not properly updated when a query involved index lookups […]

It’s finally here! Percona Server Percona Server 5.5.8-20.0 is now available for download. This is a beta release of Percona’s enhancements to the MySQL 5.5.8 server. Here are some highlights: Performance and scalability improvements throughout the server and storage engine Optimizations for flash storage such as SSD, Virident, and FusionIO Optimizations for cloud computing The […]

Percona Server version 5.1.54-12.5 is now available for download. It is now the current stable release version. Functionality Added or Changed Percona ServerÂ 5.1.54-12.5 is based on MySQL 5.1.54. New Features Added: None Other Changes: Added system variable innodb_log_block_size and new value “keep_average” to system variable adaptive_checkpoint in Improved InnoDB I/O Scalability. (Yasufumi Kinoshita) AddedÂ new value […]

Percona Server version 5.1.53-12.4 is now available for download. It is now the current stable release version. Functionality Added or Changed Â Percona ServerÂ 5.1.53-12.4 is based on MySQL 5.1.53. Â New Features Added: Precompiled UDFs for Maatkit (FNV and MurmurHash hash functions to provide faster checksums) are now included in distributions. Fixes feature request #689992. (Aleksandr Kuzminsky) […]

Percona Server version 5.1.53-11.7 is now available for download. The main purpose of this release is to update the current Percona stable release to the latest version of MySQL 5.1. Functionality Added or Changed Â Percona Server 5.1.53-11.7 is now based on MySQL 5.1.53. Â New Features Added: None Â Other Changes: None Bugs Fixed Bug #643149 – […]

Percona Server version 5.1.52-12.3 is now available for download. The main purpose of this release is to update the current Percona release candidate to the latest version of MySQL 5.1. The release also includes the HandlerSocket plugin, which provides NoSQL features in Percona Server. Functionality Added or Changed Percona Server 5.1.52-12.3 is now based on […]

Percona XtraBackup 1.5-Beta is now available for download. This release adds additional functionality to Percona XtraBackup 1.4, the current general availability version of XtraBackup. This is aÂ beta release. Functionality Added or Changed Support for MySQL 5.5 databases has been implemented.Â (Yasufumi Kinoshita) XtraBackup can now be built from the MySQL 5.1.52, MySQL 5.5.7, or Percona Server […]